A woman isn't likely to win until my grandson is a voter (he's not yet 2 years old.) Even then, I'm not sure that this country will have shrugged off its misogyny enough to do so. Also, Democrats can't win without money (no one can), and unless Congress finally legislates real campaign finance reform and legislatively repeals the Citizens United decision, they need corporate dollars. The democratic base has to accept that long enough to gain a supermajority and enact those laws.

@GinaMaria remember, a woman got 2 million more votes than the old guy in the last election. I think the gender issue has been put to bed. Look at the overwhelming number of women winning local and national seats. I think the fact we elected a half white guy did a lot to help open the shades for minorities. I'm an old guy who has the luxury of being able to talk with 18-20 year olds and we almost always talk politics. Gender or race never get mentioned. Ever. Except for my children, we're the only white people there in these groups. Every continent is represented. My other two voters are the same (triplets). One is very politically active, the other son has little interest or understanding I politics(if he weren't a triplet, I'd question his genetics) But none of them nor their friends bring up race or gender. I'm an old guy so it sticks out to me. Love watching them talk. So, , I think the glass ceiling was broken by Hillary. There more and more female CEOs (private sector has some catching up to do on both counts) all the time. Of the glass ceiling is not already broken, then the kids are going make it just sublimate. IMHO.

This post is from last year.

I'm now almost certain Bernie will win!

The deficit has gone up considerably and 7 million people lost their healthcare.

How do you define "doing much better?"

@RandomMonkey

Trump won't win.

@RandomMonkey

It's completely different. He purported to be the antiestablishment candidate and made promises he is not keeping. 7 million people have lost their healthcare. The deficit is going up... He is fucking crazy!! The US economy is now is danger. The wall? Shows he was full of hot air. Even Ann Coulter turned against him.

I predicted he WOULD win a year before the election.. 2015. He won't be reelected.
Bernie is now the real antiestablishment candidate.

@RandomMonkey

We we know soon enough! I can't believe the world has already enduring almost 3 years of that bastard.

@RandomMonkey

He won't win. His base is shrinking. People want free universal healthcare - even his base.

@RandomMonkey
I have zero faith in his ardent supporters.. I just think they will be outnumbered.

Ok, I know this is an old post, and I'm not sure how I got here, but I had to read it.... That being said, I found your reply here interesting. I have to ask what your feelings are now on the situation.. Most of all, though, I'd like to know what you meant by Trump rigging the college.. What... How could he have done that ,, pray tell?? .

No way Trump will be reelected.

And I predicted he would win 2016 a year earlier.

Remember his base is very small. Those crazy end timers the reason i am arming

I hope you realize soon... a shit load of atheist are conservatives that voted for him... It's not that far fetched, if you actually go out and talk to people in the atheist community. Yes, I know most are Liberal, but no where near all... not even close. Keep that in mind, and learn why.. There's a good reason so many of us feel this way.

Well,,, it's been a year now.. (almost) and you're still here,,, and the country is fine, in fact, doing great.. LONG LIVE TRUMP!! .... LMAO....

Ugh...

You might be joking, in which case, the prospect of Oprah winning is in fact funny. At his point, it's also absurd and here's why.

She said she's not running and made that "final." But if she were, the idea that celebrity should override someone's actual political stance, views and policies is a pop culture and media affectation that has permeated most western cultures.

Oprah is popular for many reasons, but "you get a car!.. you get a car! Everybody gets a car!" tells us nothing about her policies. What are her political views on... well, anything? Do we know? Other than her being quite spiritual (karma, fate, higher power beliefs) and wanting us all to get along, where does she stand on health care, immigration, the current pro establishment polices..? She wasn't for the estate tax - that is something she made clear.

"Anyone would be better than Trump" is a resignation that won't get us that far. The willingness to settle is likely one of the worst conditions know to man, when it comes to the detriment of many citizens.

I think it would be wise to elect someone who has some background and understanding of law or some experience with politics, other than voting. Sure, she's someone who would do her homework, but I also see her looking like a deer caught in the headlights as she'd become aware of the undertaking at hand... cut to - jokes about "not enough room for all her shoes in the white house and how she'll be "giving this political decision to the universe."

I so hope you are joking. To go from Trump to Oprah would be insane, We need another Obama, a scholar, a thinker and yes educated in reality.
We need to make American great again.

ugh. just what we need...another celebrity

There's a big difference between being a winner and being a con artist.

A winner is a natural born leader who is capable of uniting large numbers of people from differing backgrounds and beliefs towards a positive outcome. Winston Churchill was a winner.

A con artist is a loser who preys on the weak and the desperate in order to meet their own selfish ends because they have no real capacity to lead, inspire or motivate. Donald Trump is a con artist.

Oh... and you can damn well be sure that not many real winners throughout history have coasted through their entire life on a 22 billion dollar purse left to them by their daddy. Most real winners have worked their way from the ground up.

@webbew1 One of the fundamental flaws shared by political sycophants is the notion that the mere stating of something qualifies it as true and accurate because those they follow utter it repeatedly. This happens on both sides of the opinion scale. To tin god worshipers on the Right, Trump walks on water. From the Left, he's arch evil and phony.

Neither is actually the case and little of the blather is actually based on facts.
In your comment I see so many elements that are just not so, answering them all would be like trying to retreive and re-bag a handful of tossed confetti. This is what followers do. They restate things with which they've been programmed as though quantity equals veracity. I'll address a few.

The notion that leadership abilities are inborn is erroneous. A loser is by definition someone who fails at everything or almost everything they try. It far better qualifies as a description of a woman who twice lost bids for president than a man who overcame incalculable odds and phony, opinion manipulating 'polls' to WIN the presidency. One need not be a Trump worshiper to see this objective fact of history.

Preying upon weak (especially weak of mind) and desperate doesn't produce much wealth because those alleged victims possess no wealth in the first place. What they do possess are votes; hen ce their value is great to politicians who artfully prey upon them and acquire wealth after lying their ways into office.Trump was already in possession of greater wealth than any of the vote and contribution dependent politicians against whom he competed AND WON... The con-man label is green eyed myth for the most part.

Though acquisition of wealth has merit in some ways, it isn't the only criterion by which winning and accomplishing things in the world are measured. Mere opportunity is overrated. Once one has 'stepped on the stage' a performance must follow or the curtain quickly descends and so does the non-performer. The of real life and real business is produce or somebody who can produce will replace you. The in politics the opposite because terms are guaranteed regardless of whether one produces or not and lies combined with short public memory are often all it takes to perpetuate incompetence.

They aren't upset that Trump has connned his way in and is not producing; that is the deep state's game. They are terrified that he's actually DOING things he promised and rapidlly; that he's revealing the alleged leaders nakedness hidden behind tissues of lies a bout their finery propagated in the fawning press.

People are once again working in industries pronounced dead by political quacks. November willl once again disclose the patent mendacity of pre-election polls when the Blue Trickle dispatches whining consumers of myths to their safe spaces where they pleasure one another with artifice and fantasy.